BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

AND THE WINNER IS... GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO

GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO
Gullermo del Toro (first nomination and win *) Mark Gustafson, Gary Ungar, and Alexander Bulkley
(first nomination and win each!)
Jim Henson co/ Netflix
Dec 9th

MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON
Dean Fleischer Camp, Elisabeth Holm, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey (first nomination each!) 
A24
June 24th

PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH
Joel Crawford and Mark Swift (first nomination each!)

Universal/Dreamworks
Dec 23rd

THE SEA BEAST

Chris Williams
(3rd nom / 1 win) and Jed Schlanger (first nomination)
Netflix
July 8th

TURNING RED

Domee Shi
(2nd nom /1win) and Lindsey Collins (first nomination)
Disney/Pixar
March 11th

Best Animated Short

The other 10 finalists were: Black Slide, The Debutante, the Garbage Man, It's Nice in Here, More than I want to Remember, New Moon, Passenger, Save Ralph, Sierra, and Steakhouse

NOT A VERIFIED LIST. The Academy no longer officially releases these list much to our dismay as we believe in transparency... so we have to cobble it together using other sources, if we find them. But as far as we can tell the longlist included the following: 7lbs 8 Oz, Airborne, Amok - ANNECY CRISTAL, Bird in the peninsula, Black slide, Black sun (noir-soleil), the boy the mole the fox and the horse, La Calesita, Canary, The Cave, Christopher at Sea, the Clearing, Conversations with a whale, Crush, Darwin's Notebook, Do Not Feed the Pigeons, Donkey (tangki), Doom cruise, Dreamer, Fall of the ibis king, Fish out of water (Sudan cikmis balik), The Flying sailor, the fourth wall, the Garbage man (O homem do lixo), Granny's sexual life -EFA WINNER, Holy holocaust, I Knew superman, I'm Here, I'm Late, Ice Merchants - EFA NOMINEE, Impossible figures and other stories, It's nice in here, Kintsugi, Laika & Nemo, Leopoldo from the bar, Letter to a Pig, Life's a bitch, A long protracted scene of an accident (en lång utdragen olychkshänelse), Loop, love dad -AFI WINNER, Love is just a death away, Luce and the rock, Meal on the plate, Meneath the hidden island of ethics, Mild madness lasting lunacy (Folie douce folie dure), Miro wine, Mistral (maestrale),  The monkey, More than I want to remember, Mr Spam gets a new hat, My parent neal, My year of dicks - ANNECY CRISTAL TV, New moon, Night of the living dread, The ocean duck, Once there was a sea, An ostrich told me the world is fake and i think i believe it, Other half, Passenger (pasajero), Penglai, Prisoner outside, Red Shoes, reflect, Roberto, Save Ralph, The Seine's tears (les larmes de la seine), Sierra, Socrates Adventures in the Under Ground (La Odeisa espeleologica de Socrates), Song of the flies III (el canto de las moscas III - noche), Soul Office, Steakhouse - ANNECY JURY AWARD, Tronna Pinnacles, Washing Machine (Pracka) , and We are here. 

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

AND THE WINNER IS NAVALNY

ALL THAT BREATHES
Shaunak Sen, Aman Mann, and Teddy Leifer (first nomination each!)

On siblings in India who treat wounded birds

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
Laura Poitras (3rd nom, 1 win) Howard Gertler (2nd nom), John S Lyons, Yoni Golijov, and Nan Goldin (first nomination each!)

On the photographer Nan Goldin and her activism against the Sackler family

FIRE OF LOVE
 Shane Boris (3 noms),Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, and Melanie Miller (first nomination each!) 

On the relationship of two volcanologists

HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS
Monica Hellstrom (3rd nom) and Simon Lereng Wilmont (first nomination!)

NAVALNY

Shane Boris (3 noms and 1st win),Daniel Roher, Odessa Rae, Diane Becker, Melanie Miller (first nom and win each)

On the Russian opposition leader and the attempt on his life

The other 10 finalists were Bad Axe, Children of the Mist, Descendant, Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, Hidden Letters, The Janes, Last Flight Home, Moonage Daydream, Retrograde, and The Territory.

The most high profile "snub" in the finalist list was definitely Good Night Oppy with a side of Three Minutes: A Lengthening.

Best Documentary Short

AND THE WINNER IS THE ELEPHANT WHISPERERS

The other 10 finalists were: American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton, Anastasia, Angola Do You Hear Us? Voices from a Plantation Prison, As Far as They Can Run, The Flagmakers, Happiness is 4 Million, Holding Moses, Nuisance Bear, Shut up and Paint, 38 at the Garden. 

What else was eligible? NOT A VERIFIED LIST: The Academy no longer officially releases these list much to our dismay as we believe in transparency... so we have to cobble it together using other sources, if we find access to them. But as far as we can tell the longlist includes the following: 38 in the garden, After skid row, Almeda, American justice on trial, Anastasia, And then the burn the sea, Angola do you hear us - voices from a plantation prison, Aralkum, As far as they can run, Ayoungman, Barefoot empress, Beirut after 40, The best chef in the world, The black cop, Blind spot (Angle mort), The box, Call me mommy, Chants from a holy book, Constant, Disjointed, Documenting the World's first non-linear single shot film, Don't worry, The duel, e14, The elephant whisperers, The eternal springtime, The family Statement, Favourite daughter, The fire this time, Fireflies, The flagmakers, Forever as the end fate, Freedom swimmer, Full picture, The game god(s), The game, Gargau, Guerilla habeas, Handbook, Happiness is £4 million , Haulout, Heart valley, Here to stay, High noon on the waterfront, Holding Moses, How do you measure a year?, In flow of words, Inferno ,Ira, Kicking balls, Lalito 10, The last days of august, Light years, Limousine, Long line of ladies, Maalbek, Maldita - A song to Sarajevo, The Martha Mitchell effect, MINK!, Mississippi turning, Multi-Languaging - An accelerated path to understanding among cultures, Murmurs of the jungle, My disability roadmap, Nalujuk night, Nasir, Nice to meet you, Nsenene, Nuisance bear, The Panola project, Perfecting the art of longing, Prosopagnosia, The ritual to beauty, Seasons, The sentence of Michael Thompson, Shut up and paint, Sickness in the system, The silent shore, Some kind of intimacy, State of Alabama vs. Brittany Smith, The story of all of us women, Stranger at the gate, street reporter, Sue, survive, Team dream, Tech to the future, Testimony of Ana, Two spirit, Video visit, We are like waves, When the LAPD blows up your neighborhood, When we dance, Will you look at me, Wonderfully made, You can't automate me, You can't stop spirit, Zanzibar: trouble in paradise, OSHO-What they've been taught

Best Live Action Short

AND THE WINNER IS "AN IRISH GOODBYE"

The 10 other finalists were All in Favor, Almost Home, The Lone Wolf, Nakam, Plastic Killer, The Right Words, Sideral, The Treatment, Tula, and Warsha.

We dont know what else was eligible this year sadly, due to Oscar's new secrecy around the eligiblity lists.